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Mizoguchi's Greatest Decade
Street of Shame
Akasen Chitai
Japan
| 1956 | Kenji Mizoguchi
Mizoguchi’s final film (he died at age 58 six months after it opened) is a penetrating group portrait of prostitutes at a fictional brothel in 1950s Tokyo. The movie, which explores the desperation that drives women to this profession, proved so effective that legal prostitution was outlawed in Japan a year after its release. With Machiko Kyo. “The best of all films examining the problems of women in postwar Japan.” –Donald Richie.
Subtitles. 35mm. 85 min. Special admission $10; members, CIA I.D. holders, and those age 25 & under $8; no passes, twofers, or radio winners.
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